More in the Kicking Myself for Not Knowing What I Had department.
via CDM

Seriously, I bought one from some kid I knew in High School who was ditching it because he had bought a DX7, neither of which he payed for. And I paid way too much money for it compared to what it was probably worth at the time. I wasn’t a keyboard player, and it didn’t magically make me one – I couldn’t really get my mind around monophonic! – so I hung onto it for a few years and eventually sold it.

Interestingly, I sold it to a local band whom I was friends with at the time; for a couple of months I subbed as their bass player. I think they used this synth for maybe one gig, on one song, and only the noise generator at that. It was probably buying this synth (I think I let it go for like $50 dollars!) that finally divested them of their last flirtation with being anything other than a guitar band. They also bought my first guitar, an AriaPro II (yeah, I know, but it played really well… fuck it, what can I say… it was the early Eighties) and someone wisely talked them out of that as well. What makes this interesting, to me at least, is the band went onto be quite successful, especially in an enduring cult sense. They’re still at it in one form or another as well. And I have this strange little connection to them.

Of the synth, I only really remember playing with the pulse wave. I couldn’t tell you what the filter sounded like coming out of my bass amp ’cause I didn’t know what the filter did necessarily. (Give me a break, okay. I was post-punk.)

Wonder if the band still has it?